Finally, ethical considerations should always be taken into account when considering long-term enteral feeding, especially for patients with a poor quality of life. Enteral nutrition percutaneous ...

Introduction PEG feeding in patients with head and neck and upper GI cancers ... Gastropexy is an alternative technique which allows insertion of a gastrostomy tube with outside-in technique and can ...

For these participants, continuing life as normal and maintaining autonomy were paramount, and receiving a PEG-J tube for supplementary enteral feeding was perceived to be an invasive intervention ...

Costs varied by patient age (table 1). Button devices had much higher equipment costs than PEG tube devices with a Mini button device using £573.38 of consumables each year compared to £279.34 for a ...